Ten Storey Love Song

A Novel

About the Book

Ten Storey Love Song is an utterly unique and arresting sophomore novel from Richard Milward, the author of Apples, the sensational bestselling UK debut of 2007. Spanning one dynamite paragraph, Ten Storey Love Song follows Bobby the Artist’s rise to stardom, offering a cutting and charismatic portrait of a deeply dysfunctional, creative, and drug-sodden world, delivered with great beauty and abandon by “a novelist of great emotional power and deft skill.” (Irvine Welsh)

Book Description

In Ten Storey Love Song, over the course of a single dynamite paragraph, we follow Bobby the Artist's rise to stardom and horrific drug psychosis, as Johnnie attempts to stop thieving and start pleasing Ellen in bed and forty-year-old truck driver Alan Blunt spends a worrisome amount of time patrolling the grounds of the local primary school. And when Bent Lewis, a famous art dealer and mover-shaker from London, appears, Bobby and friends are quickly swept away on a sweaty adventure of self-discovery, hedonism, and violence.

Ten Storey Love Song is a cutting but characteristically charismatic portrait of a deeply dysfunctional, creative, and drug-sodden world, delivered with great beauty and abandon.

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Critical Praise

“Milward has that rare gift of being able to capture and distil an entire generation in a single, simple sentence. Brilliant. Very very funny and utterly original.” — Helen Walsh, author of Once Upon a Time in England

“Milward is a major talent, and his love for his characters shines through any degrading obstacles he forces them to encounter….He’s also a novelist of great emotional power and deft skill.” — Irvine Welsh, The Guardian

“The narrative moves at a breakneck pace, cleverly moving between characters and finding the right moments to pause for the rare tender moment. It’s a high-wire act on a par with the better Irvine Welsh books.” — Publishers Weekly (starred review)

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